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School leaders are of particular significance in that they impact on teachers’ engagement and trust, and consequently the existence and survival of schools based on the leadership styles they adopt. Thus, this study examined the relationship between school toxic leadership, teachers’ engagement and trust in Lagos State senior secondary schools Education District VI. Two hypotheses (tested at 0.05 level of significance) were set to serve as guides for the study, in which correlational and...

This study examined the relationship between principals' administrative strategies and students' academic performance in public secondary schools in Delta North Senatorial District of Delta State.The study adopted a descriptive research design of the survey and ex-post facto types.The simple random sampling technique was used to select twenty (20) secondary school.In each of the school, ten (10) teachers were selected and on a whole, 200 teachers from 20 public secondary schools were used to...

Introduction: Several studies have demonstrated the superiority of Laparoscopic appendicectomy in managing acute appendicitis. Acute appendicitis has been managed solely by open appendicectomy at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH). This was the first study that looked at the management of acute appendicitis by laparoscopy at UTH. This study aimed to determine the outcomes of laparoscopic appendicectomy at UTH. Materials and Methods: This was a prospective cohort study that included...

This paper, which drew on quantitative and qualitative data, was mainly aimed at examining the perceptions of higher institution lecturers in Nigeria concerning the effectiveness, facilitators, and inhibitors of CPD activities provided by their higher institutions and/or the Ministry of Education.The researchers employed and adapted the data collection instrument by Sywelem & Witte ( 2013) designed to collect data on perceptions of teachers regarding professional development opportunities...

The purpose of this study was to investigate preservice science teachers' proficiency levels regarding their practical knowledge of technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK-P). A sample of 103 third- and fourth-year participants from a South African university were surveyed on their TPACK-P proficiency levels using a 17-item questionnaire developed by Yeh, Lin, Hsu, Wu, and Hwang. Rasch analysis was employed to analyse the data. The findings of the study showed that the great...

The cost of repeating a module has both financial and social implications. The social implications include increased workloads when repeating a module and students often not being able to graduate within the prescribed minimum course period. A possible solution for this is the use of accelerated learning courses, in the form of summer or winter schools. These schools provide students with another opportunity to pass a module, during the summer or winter recess, using an accelerated learning...

Family, school, and community play an important role in creating learning opportunities, but research on the topic tends to approach them separately. Employing three-level hierarchical linear modeling, this study investigates how gold mining communities are related to students’ reading achievements and how they interact with school (teacher and principal) factors, child health, and child labor status to affect reading achievements in Burkina Faso. Findings suggest that gold mining...

In Africa, there are few neurologists who serve as faculty for training large numbers of medical students [ [1] WHO Neurology Atlas. http://www.who.int/mental_health/neurology/neurology_atlas_Ir.pdfDate: 2004 Google Scholar ]. Novel strategies including the use of videoconferencing has been proposed as a potential approach to augment bedside or clinical teaching of neurology [ [2] Sarfo F.S. Adamu S. Awuah D. Ovbiagele B. Tele-neurology in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review of the...

Lake Afdera is a hypersaline endorheic lake situated at 112 m below sea-level in the Danakil Depression. The Danakil Depression is located in the northern part of the Ethiopian Afar and features an advanced stage of continental rifting. The remoteness and inhospitable environment explain the limited scientific research and knowledge about this lake. Bathymetric data were acquired during 2 weeks expeditions in January/February 2016 and 2017 using an easily deployable echosounder system...

Background: Imagine South Africa being one of the jurisdictions with top-quality education in the world. A society where the right to basic education and knowledge is not highly valued; but also implemented alongside appropriate safety and security networks, and high-level infrastructure and technology. A country like Finland, a tiny Nordic country with a population of about 5.5 million, is an example of how to manage safety and security at schools while at the same time offering quality...

Family has long been said to have an influence on children’s education. Thus, it can be understood that any difficult domestic situation may have repercussions on children’s education. This study was undertaken to examine the effect of domestic violence on learning effectiveness among primary school learners in Rubavu District, Rwanda. It was carried out in 35 primary schools located in the district. This study adopted the correlational research design; its population comprised 14423 primary...

This study investigated the nature of attitudes of administrators, teachers, learners and parents towards female teachers of mathematics in secondary schools in Lusaka District. A descriptive survey research design was used for in the study. Data was collected from 136 respondents comprising 40 secondary school teachers, 80 learners, 8 parents and 8 administrators. Schools were selected using stratified sampling while simple random sampling techniques were used to select the teachers and...

The radical change in delivery method caused by the COVID-19 pandemic forced students and academics alike into the online space rather than the conventional brick and mortar learning model. The objective of this study was to investigate the impact that the digital divide has on student transition to online learning during the COVID 19 crisis at a selected higher education institution (HEI) in South Africa. Ensuring digital equality during the pandemic was crucial for higher education...

This article provides evidence on the relationships between food aid and the adoption of climate adaptive agricultural practices (CAPs) in the context of smallholder households in Ethiopia and Malawi. Using bivariate and mixed recursive models, and drawing on three waves of nationally representative panel survey data, we find that receiving food aid significantly increases the probability of adopting soil and water conservation structures in both countries and increasing livestock holdings...

Hearing impairment (HI) is characterized by complex genetic heterogeneity. The evolution of next generation sequencing, including targeted enrichment panels, has revolutionized HI diagnosis. In this study, we investigated genetic causes in 22 individuals with non-GJB2 HI. We customized a HaloplexHS kit to include 30 genes known to be associated with autosomal recessive nonsyndromic HI (ARNSHI) and Usher syndrome in North Africa. In accordance with the ACMG/AMP guidelines, we report 11...

A critical stage in drought hazard assessment is the definition of a drought event, and the measure of its intensity. Actually, the classical approach imposes to all climatic region the same set of thresholds for drought severity classification, hence resulting in a loss of information on rare events in the distribution tails, which are precisely the most important to catch in risk analysis. In order to better assess extreme events, we resort to an extreme value mixture model with a normal...

The study analyzed the level of agro–ecosystem sensitivity to climate change among the agro–climatic zones (ACZs) that are situated in the highlands of Lake Tana sub–basin. The analyses considered the actual land capability class (LCC in % considering soil texture, slope and elevation zone), crop diversity (count), length of growing period (LGP, month), and inter–annual variability of climate (mean annual rainfall–MARF in mm, mean monthly minimum temperature–MMMinT in ºC, and mean monthly...

THE INFLUENCE OF PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN FORMAL EDUCATION: CASE STUDY OF MOHALE'S HOEK DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL IN LESOTHO